Leather-clad Gary (Simon Pegg) rounds up his old friends for a night of drinking that takes a turn for the weird in the comedy 'The World's End.'
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The World's End also marks the end of an era for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright.

Wright directs the apocalyptic comedy (in theaters Aug. 23) that acts as the finale of a trilogy of films - connected not by story but by filmmaking style, tonal approach and humorously quirky characters - starring Pegg and Frost and including Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).

Pegg, who reprises his role as Scotty in the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness sequel, previously played a slacker caught in a zombie apocalypse in Shaun and a go-getting city cop sent to rural Britain in Hot Fuzz. ...